Corona bonus up to 1,500 euros - that is how long you can still benefit from the money
Created: 01/13/2022Updated: 01/13/2022, 8:04 am
By: Anne Hund
Some employers pay their employees a tax-free corona bonus.
However, the regulation is limited in time.
Employees can get a tax-free * Corona bonus from their employer.
This regulation was initially limited to June 30, 2021.
For employees, however, there was good news in May: The regulation was
extended until March 31, 2022.
That also had
the wage tax aid association United wage tax aid e.
V. (VLH) communicated at the time.
Tax-free corona bonus of up to 1,500 euros for employees
The maximum limit, however, is still 1,500 euros
, as the German Press Agency (dpa) further described.
In other words: Anyone who has already received 1,500 euros as a corona bonus from their employer in 2020 cannot receive another tax-free payment in 2021 or 2022.
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Corona bonus can be granted until 2022
But there is one possibility: If a company paid its employees a corona bonus of 1,000 euros in 2020, a bonus of 500 euros could now be granted until March 31, 2022, according to the dpa report.
If no corona bonus was granted in 2020
, the maximum amount may be used by March 31, 2022
.
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Corona bonus of up to 1,500 euros for every employment relationship
Important: If you
have several employment relationships
, you can receive the corona bonus of up to 1,500 euros for each employment relationship - even within a calendar year.
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And another tip:
If the bonus is paid in kind, the employee should confirm the time of receipt in writing, as was also described in the report.
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